1) Introduction

a) Because of recent events, certain vaccinations need to be

required by the government to ensure to health and safety of all
Americans.
2) Body
a) These diseases are very deadly and are easily spread
i) Vaccines
ii) Pandemics have occurred throughout the United States as a
result of these diseases, killing hundreds of thousands of
people.
iii) All vaccinations recommended by the CDC protect children
from mumps, measles, chicken pox, meningitis, and more.
b) Vaccines are effective in fighting deadly diseases
i) Junk science and the anti-vaccine fraud
(1)Valuable and cost effective
(2)Very first vaccine (smallpox) slowed down and finally
eradicated the most devastating infectious disease ever t
strike humanity
(3)Especially protective against diseases that hit children the
hardest (polio, measles, mumps, whooping cough, and
diphtheria)
ii) Evidence shows vaccines unrelated to autism
(1) Vaccines are safe a babys immune system can easily
handle the vaccinations
(2)Since the baby is born, its immune system begins coping
with bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
(3)Doesnt fit with what we know about the remarkable
capacity of the immune system
c) Controversy around mandatory vaccinations
i) Some people believe there is a link between vaccinations and
autism or other side effects
(1)In the past decade, the number of children diagnosed with
autism has risen 78 percent
(2) Companies are pushing vaccines in spite of the risks
associated with them
(3)Vaccines have thimerosal, a preservative containing
mercury, which is toxic
ii) Freedom and Individualism
(1)state legislators and health departments now face a
difficult challenge: respecting individual rights and
freedoms while also safeguarding the public welfare.
vanishing vaccinations
(2)Involve a violation of liberty, where agents of the state
inject substances into someones body against his or her
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(3) Primary beneficiary is himself FEE- however health

officials cite unvaccinated individuals as a main contributor
to the spread of diseases (Pew)
iii) Religious and Philosophical beliefs
(1)nearly all states allow vaccination exemptions for religious
reasons and a growing number provide philosophical optouts as well.
(2)Ethical dilemmas associated with using human tissue cells
to create vaccines
(a) Catholic church recognizes the value of vaccines and
the importance of protecting the individual and
community health
(i) Members should seek alternatives (when available)
to vaccines that are made using cell lines derived
from aborted fetuses
(3)Beliefs that the body is sacred and should not receive
certain chemicals, blood, or tissues from animals
(a) Should be healed by god or natural means
(4)Religious vaccine exemptions have risen in recent years
(a) Infections spread quickly through small unvaccinated
social and/or geographic church communities
d) Consequences of people not vaccinating are too serious to
overlook/ignore
i) Herd immunity is threatened
ii) Vulnerable populations are suffering harm or even death
iii) in the interests of social welfare, state legislators and health
departments should consider methods to ensure that the
exemption process is carefully tailored to prevent check-thebox opt-outs of convenience, while still allowing exemptions
for those with earnest and informed convictions or medical
reasons.
e) Vaccinations have effectively curbed the spread of deadly
diseases - MIT
i) Evidence shows Vaccines unrelated to Austism
(1)Behaviors of autism are first notced at 18-24 months, after
most child vaccines have been given so parents
incorrectly associate the two
(2)Genetics play a great role in determining whether a child
will be autistic
(3)UCSD & Eric Courchesne have recently confirmed that
children with austism have architecual disorganization in
their prefrontal and temporal cortical tissue.
(a) This organization happens in the second trimester of
pregnancy, so the malformation has to happen during
that time or earlier, way before a child is born or ever
receives a vaccine

ii) In the late 1990s Andrew Wakefield and other coauthors

published a paper that raised concerns about the possible link
between autism and MMR, however they could not prove this
relation. (Vaccines)
(1)Even though the paper was retracted and Wakefields
medical license was taken away, the idea that vaccines
might be the leading factor of autism still concerns many
people and parents of young children.
iii) Wakefields paper was not just sloppy or deceptively
presented; it was fraudulent. (Junk Science)
(1)Experts found that Wakefield had manipulated all of the
data for each subject in some way.
iv) A policy of voluntary vaccination, or granting political or
philosophical exceptions causes much more potential harm
than requiring people to get a vaccination does. Mandatory
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(1)State could impose fines on parents or declare that such
action constitutes as child neglect (4)
(2)Childhood vaccines save nearly $40 billion in direct and
indirect costs as well as save a lot of lives (3)
(3)
No individual has the right to expose other
individuals to that risk (1)
(4)
if herd immunity rates fall low enough we can
expect pandemics (2)
v) Infections spread quickly through small unvaccinated social
and/or geographic church communities
(1)All specific examples
f) Conclusion
i) Mandatory vaccinations, while controversial, are a necessary
tool in the prevention of deadly diseases and the safeguarding
of public health in America.
ii) Diseases are easily spread and could be highly fatal.
iii) Vaccinations prevent these diseases from being spread and
killing many people.
iv) Vaccinations and Autism have zero connection
v) Consequences
(1)Wide spread outbreaks
(2)Pandemics